Malcolm McLaren, who passed on today at the age of 64, was an oddly necessary presence in the cultural landscape of the 1970s; popping up like the red-headed demon in some hitherto invisible Jack-in-the-box planted in our unknowing midst to forge, with that rockin’ teenage combo he managed, the most fateful union of its time; that wedding of genuinely anarchic social impulse and legit showbiz which came to be known, and marketed, as Punk Rock.

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— Malcolm McLaren Dead at 64